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Was There Really a Social Efficiency Doctrine? The Uses and Abuses of an Idea in Educational History
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Direct linkFallace, Thomas; Fantozzi, Victoria – Educational Researcher, 2013
In the historiography on curriculum reform during the progressive era, one interpretive lens has dominated the study of 20th-century reform for more than 40 years: the idea of the "social efficiency" doctrine. In this historiographical essay, the authors briefly trace the rise of social efficiency as an idea in curriculum history, identify the…
Descriptors: Historiography, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Intellectual History
